1989-1997: Research Biologist, Institute of
Zoology, National Academy of
Sciences of Belarus, Minsk. Monitoring of animal
populations, ecological
research on predatory animals, development of
protected area network, beetle
identification.

1998. Study of the Neotropical Hetaeriinae
(Coleoptera: Histeridae) at the
collection of the Field Museum of Natural History,
Chicago. Visiting Research
Scholarship, Field Museum of Natural History. $
500.

1996. Survey of the status of wildlife and natural
habitats and improvement of
protected area network in the Pripyat River
floodplain (Belarus and Ukraine)
Michael Otto Stiftung f¹r Naturschutz, Hamburg,
Germany, 1996-97, with
A.V.Kozulin and M.E.Nikiforov. DEM 25,000.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park All-Taxa
Biodiversity Inventory. 2001-04.
IÒm part of the Lousiana State Arthropod Museum
(LSAM) team lead by C.E.Carlton,
responsible for the beetle inventory. My
participation has an emphasis on
collection of forest litter fauna and
identification of Histeridae and
Eucnemidae.

IBISCA - Panama 2003-05 (Investigating the
Biodiversity of Soil and Canopy
Arthropods). IÒm part of an international research
team of this Smithsonian
Tropical Research Institute-led project with
responsibilities in fieldwork
(pitfall and flight intercept trapping, 2003-04)
and sorting/analytical (4
target taxa, in collaboration with C.E.Carlton and
A.R.Cline [LSAM], 2004-05)
stages of the project.